Many portions of our industry would say that the concepts of an LMS and a learning portal (or knowledge center, or learning center, or learning site. Many LMS companies have done great work to extend the LMS capability to successfully bolt on a web portal-like front end, however I would suggest that this LMS-driven web front end is (necessarily) more of a user-facing manifestation of the LMS than a web-based learning environment designed, built, and performing specifically with the user's needs, requirements, and experience in mind. What does this mean? MORE >>

This can be accomplished by highlighting areas of inconsistency, incompleteness, or even inelegance in the learner’s knowledge base. Mark R. Lepper at Stanford University is a leading theorist in social psychology and has written numerous academic papers, one I came across the other day is titled “Motivational Considerations in the Study of Instruction&# that was published in the journal Cognition and Instruction (1988), 5(4) 289-309. In the paper he discusses some principles for designing motivational instruction that I found useful. Control. Challenge. Curiosity. Design MORE >>

Based on insights from her book , the podcast looks at trends and predictions about what the workforce will look like in 2020. It is mobile in that you will be able to access the knowledge base from your mobile device where ever you are, at exactly the moment you need it. By Jeffrey Katzman. We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jeanne Meister for Xyleme Voices. Jeanne packs a tremendous amount of valuable information into a 19 minute podcast, so it’s worth a full listen, but here is a small glimpse: In 2020, there will be five generations in the workplace. MORE >>

Write well-defined measurable objectives based on the needs of the learner. in the workplace where transfer of knowledge can occur. Engage in cross-disciplinary knowledge, consult with others and expand one’s own knowledge base and perspective constantly. A few months ago I published a list of the 10 Qualities Of The Ideal Instructional Designer. Since then, the eLearning community contributed so many qualities to the list it is now overflowing. So here are the next 35 qualities. The effective instructional designer should: Competently Work with SMEs. MORE >>

You think of improving skills and increasing knowledge. Knowledge management may be two words, but it’s a single concept. Knowledge is inherently unmanageable. It’s based on the assumption that an elite can figure out what workers need to know, package it as explicit data, and serve it up in a database. Most of the knowledge workers seek is tacit and beyond the reach of databased systems. The smart money is betting on bottom-up knowledge bases, compiled and maintained, by the people who use them. CLO online edition. Dirty Words. by Jay Cross. MORE >>